By M. L. Liebler

ISBN-10: 0814342027

ISBN-13: 9780814342022

In I are looking to Be Once, M. L. Liebler ways present occasions with a journalistic eye and a poet’s reaction. half autobiographical, half statement, the traces of Liebler’s poems come hard-hitting, yet no longer with out moments of significant tenderness and humanity.

Ordered into 3 sections, I are looking to Be as soon as provides readers with a glance into the author’s own lifestyles, in addition to our collective historical past as a state vis-à-vis the yank media. the 1st part, known as “American Life,” captures the adventure of coming of age in working-class Nineteen Sixties the US and is helping to color the image of Liebler’s early political involvement. The poems within the moment part, “American War,” concentrate on the author’s cultural paintings in Afghanistan for the U.S. kingdom division; Liebler effectively captures the sorrowful realities and fleeting balance of lifestyle in Kabul, Jalalabad, and Kandahar. within the ultimate part, “American Psalms,” the quick, satirical poems muse on present-day American society, tradition, and the humanities. In those poems, Liebler feedback on every little thing from public schooling to public radio to Russia’s feminist punk rock protest crew Pussy insurrection and more.

The poems in I are looking to Be Once are emotionally grounding yet punctuated with a humor that retains issues in standpoint. Readers with an curiosity in poetry and social statement should be interested in this enticing collection.

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